skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strawman much?

I don't understand how you can get "America sucks" from from my comments. I love this place. All the stuff you said sucks are things that suck in lots of other countries too. Why am I going to get upset about phenomena that's happening everywhere? The things I like about America are those things that are unique to America.

> being lonely is a function of your political affiliation (this was absolutely amazing to see - wow)

I was pointing out correlation. I didn't imply causation. You're reading causation into what I wrote. Loneliness or just general unhappiness is far less prevalent amongst those that lean conservative and very conservative. It's probably something worth investigating to figure out why this correlation exists.

> Tokio Japan - has kids riding metro by themselves, you should look it up.

Glad you brought this up. It was something I was thinking about when I wrote my comment. Japan has exactly that which the US has lost a LOT of in the past 30+ years. It's a highly cohesive, high trust culture.

You should go and look up the research of Robert Putnam, who has done the largest, most comprehensive longitudinal studies of the decline of civic engagement.

If you're so unhappy in the US, why are you here? Why not move back to wherever you're happier that has culture when you think the US has no culture? Reading between the lines, it sounds like you haven't made an effort to assimilate into the culture and that has colored your experience and negative view of America.

I'm not going to disagree that America is sick, but it has the potential to get healthy again and that starts with changes that prioritize increasing the quality of life for those already here, whether they were born here or became naturalized citizens. And the prioritization of finding commonality between those that are Americans by birth or chose to become America because they believe in its potential as a nation.
3D printing doesn't relieve any important construction constraints and probably raises costs because unfamiliarity increases risks and increased risk increases price.

Superstructure is about the easiest and fastest part of residential construction. Sitework, finishes, and MEP systems are harder, tend to take longer, and cost more.

Anyway, market rate housing sells at market rates no matter how it is built.
One trick that I have discovered that does wonders in a wide array of scenarios is to run OS installation inside a visual machine with a real drive connected.
Amazon retail was the first customer for AWS.
> for an appropriately sized studio (perhaps 1BR) apartment

I had a roommate when I started out and could not afford an apartment. At the time one could also rent someone's spare bedroom. Government zoning also got rid of boarding houses.

> haven't kept up with things

The increasing share of the economy that the government vacuums up comes from somewhere.
No way. Our politics are like a bar fight. Dirty and reactionary.
Haha maybe, it's a bit contradictory to my first goal. I'm limiting myself to an hour a day at most of study right now. I might increase it (mostly w/ more immersion) but being mindful to not make it all time consuming.
Private equity has already beat you there and senior housing in the USA and there are already REITs that specialize in nursing homes.
> But the API access and federation should remain free.

...no.

APIs are not free cost-wise: They require server compute to serve requests, at minimum.

IMO: Require API users to put down $2 to obtain access, and offer higher tiers for higher limits. I.E What Twitter's API already does.
"And while you were paying attention to these things, you were momentarily delivered from daydreams, from memories, from anticipations, from silly notions - from all the symptoms of you."

"Isn't tasting me?"

...

"I'd say it was halfway between me and not-me. Tasting is not-me doing something for the whole organism.

And at the same time tasting is me being conscious of what's happening. And that's the point of our chewing-grace - to make the me more conscious of what the not-me is up to."

--Aldous Huxley, Island
You might have had me convinced, but then you mentioned a Mustang, which is not a race car. Now I am skeptical.

Are any of these engines used in NASCAR, F1 or any professional autosports? If not, they are not “racing engines”.

By the way, for very low volume parts, it would make sense to make them by hand, so just because Ford lists them does not mean that they are made on an factory assembly line. That is if they are actual engines used in professional autosports. If they are hot rod engines, a factory production line would make sense since those have a bigger market.
It's not unfairly excluding a specific manufacturer if it's a reasonable requirement. Something like "no service vendor lock-in" and "firmware can't be silently updated remotely" would do the trick and either: 1) Newag would refuse to participate; 2) Newag would not do the same shit under the new contract; 3) Newag would do the same shit, easily found in direct breach of contract, then excluded for a few rounds of tenders on the basis of past breaches and/or active litigation.
There's plenty of evidence, like most, you've just not bothered to search for it before forming your opinion.

If you're genuinely interested, I recommend starting with this report:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/e-cigarettes-an-e...
I guess I have to seriously start learning norsk again. I am not aware of german likable politicians in (potential) top positions.

(Also I love the norwegian wilderness)
Shadertoy has plenty of fluid solvers, e.g. here is a 3d solver: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wlG3RW
You cannot predict these things.
Sure, but transhipment hubs don’t have to be islands. In fact they usually aren’t. Hawaii isn’t and it’s the only landmass for thousands of miles. Anchorage isn’t for seaborne traffic. Etc.

A lot of Singapore’s thing is also manufacturing from raw imports and then shipping out processed goods.
SF prices dropping back to 2019 doesn't mean much of anything given how high those prices were back then. SF throughout much of our history hasn't been the place for tech jobs, that happened sometime in the mid 2000s but wasn't true before then (Silicon Valley/San Jose were the places for tech). I expect that we won't see many big tech offices opening in SF anymore because they simply have a lot more better/affordable options to choose from.
It is true that Reagan campaigned against Carter's 'profligate' spending. But then it's also a fact that Carter (2.6% in 1980) had reduced Ford's deficit (4.1% in 1976) and then Reagan's deficit (5.9% in 1983) greatly increased Carter's. Reagan's Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney summarized the Reagan governing philosophy as deficits don't matter.
> Now if you were going to do this for large scale profit, one of the things you are going to have to do is stop the illusion you're modelling skill and start modelling corruption.

Well...I reject that dichotomy. If someone intentionally introduces an exploit, sure. But I can think of numerous examples where someone found "bugs" and exploited them, while playing by criminal and ethical rules. It sounds like you realized that these are just rare and hard to reproduce without taking on more legal risk. Hats off to the people like the Stats PhD I linked to who ran a multi-person outfit and everyone has kept their mouth shut.

A similar exploit happened recently where a syndicate bought all of the lotto combinations. The math was straightforward, but execution was hard. They had to spin up a few licensed terminals at shuttered storefronts to execute all of the purchases. This forced a rule change.
I got an insight in to why this is the case in 2012, when I had the misfortune to be part of the worst project I've ever worked on.

I was at one of Australia's 'big four' banks. My $100m project was charged with replacing a tiny part of their mortgage system: the onboarding of a new customer. That was it: just getting a new customer in to the existing legacy system.

Oracle were the prime. They were a disgrace. Accenture had their grubby little fingers in the pie and were theoretically, laughably, going to run the thing. They used to charge us $2m to copy and paste documents. The thieves.

It was an utter shambles. The 'plan on a page' was diamond shapes on a PowerPoint slide. There was no link to any sort of reality.

I lasted 9 months before the blessed gods let me go. Shortly thereafter the whole thing was cancelled.
Previous discussion under original title, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20978134
There’s a lot I agree with here, but the section pertaining to Ukraine might as well have been written by Vladimir Putin.
I'd say if it has ever been Germany first, that started in the 90s or later. France needed some convincing to agree to German reunification, and they weren't wrong about what would happen next. Germany simply has the largest population in Europe now. AFAICT, Germany is not really seeking out a leading role, it's more trying to avoid it, which has its problems, too.
When I test new LLMs (whether SaaS or local), I have them create a fake post to r/AmItheAsshole from the POV of the older brother in the parable of the Prodigal Son.

It's a great, fun test.
I'm not attacking you. I just see too many people say to not do something, and think that's a silly thing to say to a technical crowd.

Also, I don't agree that it's not obvious when something goes down. You don't know how I or my users check my email. If anything, I hear from people much more quickly when there's an issue with email than web!
Why would the gains be exponential? Assume that X "first arrival" develops a model with a certain rnd investment, and Y arrives next year with investment that's an order of magnitude less costly by following, and there's a simple enough switchover for customers. That's what's meant by no defensible moat; a counterexample is Google up to 2022 where for more than a decade nothing else came close in value prop. Maybe X now has an even better model with more investment, but Y is good enough and can charge way less even if their models are less cost-effective.
opensnitch is pretty good on a linux desktop, especially with its cool ebpf kernel interface.

mostly good for monitoring for malware though. doesn't replace good inbound firewall rules.
Illegal immigration has consistently been a fairly see through smokescreen for anti immigrant politics
I've got tons of keyboards as well, and despite just weeks ago getting the new Wooting keyboard am likely to get another. You don't really know if you like a board until you use it for a while.

Like, I thought the near-TKL design of the Wooting would be fine, but it's actually incredibly annoying. I often use delete, home, end, page up, and page down[1] but only 4 of the keys exist in that cluster. Why could they not have just added the tiny bit of extra width to include the rest of the cluster?

On other boards the issues that made me try something else tended to come down to the switches. It's wild how some switches were so easy to press that the weight of my fingers was basically enough to actuate them, while others made my fingers feel tired when trying to overcome the resistance of the tactile bump. I had one board I could hot swap keys on which made it easy to try other kinds but I gave up on doing that since even when I thought they were well aligned I would bend pins when pushing them in (and bending them back would just break the pins off, leading to many trashed switches).
Someone in the reviews posted test results and found they only had a 253-333mAh capacity at 1.5v (so 0.5Wh). 10440 lithium-ion cells (which closely match AAA size) have 250-350mAh at 3.7v (say, 1.295Wh).

If they actually had the 1200mAh capacity they say they'd have 1.8Wh which is much higher than a straight lithium-ion cell without the charging and voltage regulation circuitry taking up space.
I didn’t know the propeller was still for sale. I remember learning spin years ago to play with one of the older propeller chips. This is a good surprise and seems like a fun project to do. For some reason I keep wanting to go into retro computing but never seem to have the time …
Google is still good enough for most searches. Say finding web page of restaurant or some cursory information on popular topic.

I suppose competitor would have to be really good on those times most users need something better.

So it is the brand and familiarity. It would need to get really bad even on most basic things to be replaced.
That's not enough. See sell it with a charge port. It will still be thrown away after one use.
Switzerland has 8.1% VAT
The state is responsible of public health and waste management anyways and those useless disposable vapes falls on these two categories.
I really wanted mastodon to take off but in practice it just hasn’t seemed to, or at least any spaces that are worth using are also not discoverable.

Anecdotally, as someone who mostly used Twitter for math and theoretical CS (plus some news and current events) I feel like I ought to have been able to fairly easily find a community on mastodon but I never did. BlueSky is doing much better as a replacement for tech twitter and math twitter.

I suspect the centralization is necessary to an extent to get critical momentum. You could replicate something like that in mastodon maybe, but nobody seems to have done so in practice and I’m skeptical they will. Truth Social is probably the best example but from what I know, but it never hit the scale of Twitter even with a fairly ravenous core audience.
Yes, interested as well. If this can be built for less than $100 then I’m in.
Faster, Please.
Have you ever tried https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/installation/prompt with fish?
>The act like typical authoritarians.

That's hilarious (not), given that so much discourse is about just how much democracy should be shaved off to get the desirable Democratic(tm) results (Supermajority for Brexit! Ban AFD! et al.).
At least in other systems the way this works is that any train using CBTC going onto a non-CBTC section will just operate using non-CBTC. Which is fine for lower frequency branches or emergency diversions. All you need for non-CBTC operation is a driver who can see.

It is also, where provisions have been made, possible to put CBTC equipment on old trains. That is what NYC is doing, for example.
And it's a very old and well known software..
> and is a one-time payment

I feel like I’ve done many one-time payments to get the new version of Little Snitch through the years.

I’m not currently using it, but for a long time it was on my list of Mac apps that I feared having to pay to upgrade with every new macOS release.
I'm pretty sure 3) is Meta's strategy currently
Buy a house, employ 6 nurses?
Here are two that I worked on for 10 and 5 years, respectively:

https://Qbix.com/platform

https://Intercoin.org/applications

Maybe I was just a crazy socialist LOL

Here is the why:

https://intercoin.org/community.pdf

https://intercoin.org/IntercoinSolutions.pdf
I agree. I find it incredibly difficult to believe this wasn’t a known issue until now. The NSA/CIA have unbelievable computing and analysis power available.

Anyway, IDRTFA, but I hope this was at least reported before the release of the talk. This sort of thing could get a lot of people killed.
Meanwhile our governement has said it's not allowed to do this because it would need to be done at the EU level due to "market harmonisation rules" or some nonsense like that. Looks like they're full of shit, given that Belgium managed to do it...
I read that. It doesn't actually explain how the server can tell me the Eiffel Tower is in my photo without knowing it's telling me that. It glosses over the mechanism by which it can tell me what's in my photo without the service itself knowing. Yeah, cool, never-decrypted. So how do they match up? An ultra-abstract "A[encrypted] + B[encrypted] = A+B[encrypted]" doesn't tell me anything.

As an aside, your unfounded derision about "RTFA" is unwarranted and unnecessary. That was an unusually-hostile response for like, just talking about things.
Narrative Paradigm
> Technically that's what we call "buying software".

What a novel idea. You mean once upon a time you didn’t have to pay a monthly racket for a piece of software you wanted..?
I found the reddit thread referenced in the video and left comments -

On the original ethernet being a mistake -

"I have another perspective on this - the bus concept at its roots dates to 1974/75 - a machine that could function as a hub in 1975 or even in 1979 would have potentially been as large and costly as the mini-computers Ethernet was intended to interconnect. A switch at that time would have been extraordinary costly.

Bus was the right technology for the time (as in the right one to go to market), it was right because it was an easy low cost means to get the LAN concept into more peoples hands so they could see the utility of it.

What I did find surprising was Metcalfe's resistance to UTP based standards with a hub in the middle once the technology did catch up - my gut from here 40 years on - makes me think that he was concerned about protecting his investments in 10base5 and 10base2, and making sure his installed base didnt feel like they had an obsolete product - as well as protecting 3Com's position as a 'Market Leader' in the space.

As an aside, I remember working on 10Base2 networks well into the late 90's and early 2000's - it was widely used in certain situations - like computer labs - where the bus topology made installation significantly easier than home runs would have been."

On 8P8C being picked as the connector -

"Also as someone who has spent a portion of my career doing cabling, thank you for picking the 8P8C modular system, its significantly better - both in cost and ease of assembly than anything I'm aware of existing at that time.

While there are some electrical issues with the 8P8C, the connector has been flexible enough that with minor design changes to keep up as line speeds have increased.

As a note, there are several vendors that make push-thru modular connectors (as in the wire extends beyond the front of the connector shell and the crimper trims it, much like how the cut blade on a punch tool works), which completely eliminate the need to accurately trim and face the wire ends - a huge time/frustration savings."
I simply do not trust those stats that people like their health insurance. I want to see the percentage of people who have had a catastrophic event occur who love their insurance.

A lot of people probably mean "I like having health insurance".

Yeah, we don't have government rationing or decisions based on outcome, we have publicly traded death panels.
>> Categorizing in terms of absolutes, such as "there are no liberals who ..." and "no conservatives who ...", is to engage in reductionism ...

>> This is simply not true.

> it simply is :)

People make choices for a multitude of reasons.

Sometimes those choices are knowingly to their detriment and can be confounding to others whom are not a part of their decision process. Many times the reasoning is "sacrifice for the greater good", where "the greater good" is defined by the very people who are the harbinger of their pain. Other times, it can be as simple as; "my life sucks so everyone else's should too!"

I am sure there are many more categories which could be provided as well.

But to say:

.. for majority of people every single opinion and thought
they have just magically lines up with one political party ...

Is to be so dismissive of people as to be the height of arrogance.
Also, skilled nuclear engineers cost a lot more money than traditional ship labor.
> You can; or, at least, the APIs are available for this, and have been for some time.

Why is there no citation on this one? iOS has a (fairly limited) VPN API but it is woefully insufficient to make an application-level firewall and I don't think any exist.

> https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-private-safe-browser/i...

That's Safari in a trenchcoat.

> Inb4 "you cannot replace the built-in browser engine"

> https://developer.apple.com/documentation/browserenginekit

That requires an entitlement that A.) is only available in the EU for apps distributed in the EU and B.) as far as I know, has never been granted to anyone. Mozilla for example does not have it.

If it weren't for EU regulations we would probably still not even be able to change the default browser in iOS, so realistically it appears regulating Apple works great. It's hard to argue against regulating Apple while also defending it by showing the fruit bore from regulating them.

> Then use an Android.

I own both iOS and Android devices for what it's worth. Anyway...

> Apple has taken a stance on this since it was formed.

Since... it was formed? Really? I don't remember the Apple II requiring a $100/year developer license to "side load" software.

> If you don't know by now that Apple is actively hostile toward hobbyists with their approach to computing, I can't help you.

This is a frankly insane thing to say to someone who is in middle of criticizing Apple for this exact hostility. Of course framing it as a developer problem is a convenient way to ignore that developers are users and users are developers, and that these restrictions also have negative impacts on even users who aren't developers.

> That is why there are alternatives from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and so many others.

Apple is the same company that ran a tirade about how Android was a stolen product, so I find it amusing that in just ten years it has become the crutch to defend any and all bad practices Apple holds dear. Don't like it? Just use something else!

Of course, I do use other devices, but I can't magically not be impacted by Apple's persistent brain-death. For years I have had to deal with the utter stupidity that is the fact that Apple refused to support patent-unencumbered video formats like WebM, and devices that can't play WebM natively and in Safari are still plentiful in the wild. So I can't just pretend Apple doesn't exist.

Not that it matters: I am free to criticize Apple however I want, even if Apple fans do not like it. Even just because I feel like it, but even moreso as a paying customer of Apple, and a developer who has dealt with the impact of Apple being involved in the ecosystem. (Thank you Apple, for refusing to support SPIR-V in WebGPU, we love having an additional standard for something for basically no reason.)

> To others (me), this is a feature. I would rather the $100/yr fee exist for several reasons.

I know. I don't think highly of this position, but I am well aware of it.
Did you happen to stop at the gas station that same day? What does “that very transaction caused a fraud alert” mean? It’s not unusual for multiple transactions to be marked as fraud, even legitimate ones, when a credit card is stolen.
Huh?
You have not the first clue as to what I like or dont like.
I'm happy to have people across the political spectrum express their views on any platform.
That paper doesn't disprove my point. It indicates ~7% home vacancy, which means the total number of vacant homes is higher than the number of people without homes.
Most Americans don't want equitable healthcare they want the best they can afford and they want the newest treatments available.

The waiting for the patent to expire and buying in bulk keep down the costs down works. The US couldn't use the generic strategy because the drug companies get funded and create the new drugs this way. Cutting off the funding would mean no new drugs to copy so no new generics. Australia would have to start funding research.
I have it installed on my main Mac. But honestly I don't use it/don't know if it's doing anything. Should I be doing something?
Somebody needs to cross-check the LLM output, and it's better if they're cheaper than a domestic employee
Nice, I’ve been using dotter, will have to check out chezmoi
They housed them no questions asked. That is how you solve the problem.